In case you wonder where I am. . . . .

. . . . I thought I better make a quick post, although I feel like I don't have much to post about. I did library duty at the church yesterday and as usual no one came by! Next week another girl will be on duty. Not sure if I mentioned but Jean (the library director) got another volunteer so we now alternate Thursdays. I will only do one more Thursday (the week after next) and then we break up for Summer. Jean will probably re-think the library opening hours because we haven't been getting many using it during the week. Sunday is obviously the most popular day for people to drop in and use it.

We had a bit of a scare on Wednesday night, but thankfully all is well. See the computer desks behind the sofa in the picture below? Well our sweet precious princess banged her head really hard on the corner of one of those desks and gave us all a pretty big shock!
She was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed under her I think, playing with Jason on the Wii. Actually Jason was the only one using a controller at the time, Kristen was just watching, and from what I can gather she simply over-reacted to a bomb exploding on the game and jumped backwards, obviously throwing her head back at the same time. I was sitting at my computer at the time, and oh man the noise of her head hitting that desk!!!!!!!! of course she started screaming a split second later and I rushed round to get to her and see if she was ok.

I started to check her head to see if she had a huge bump, and that's when I saw the blood and it was all over my hand, and dripping on to the back of her t-shirt, and all the while she was screaming! I have never had such a shock in all her 7 years of life. I grabbed a handful of tissues and held them against her head, at the same time leading her to the bathroom. Jason wet a facecloth for me and I put that against her head and put pressure on. I needed to see where the blood was coming from and see how bad the gash was. If it didn't stop bleeding we would be in the car and on the way to the hospital. Kristen had stopped crying by this time. I finally saw where the cut was but it didn't look like a gash, more like a scrape and within a minute the bleeding stopped. Unbelievable!

Kristen was more shook up than anything and said it didn't hurt but she had a headache. I gave her two Motrin but of course would not let her lie down and told her she shouldn't go to sleep because Mommy wouldn't know if she was feeling sick or not! We came downstairs after that and I sat with her on the sofa. She asked for some icecream and we watched some tv. She stayed up for a couple of hours then I let her go to bed.

It was Muffins with Mom yesterday morning at her school! It's a rather rushed affair and they still start school at the usual time of 7.45 so we had to be there for 7.15 for muffins. It gave me a chance to tell her teacher about the bang to her head, and I explained that if Kristen complained of a headache or anything, that was the reason why, and she should probably go to the nurse. I'm happy to say Kristen was fine all day and later that afternoon I checked her head, I am amazed at the little scrape I now see, it's barely a graze! I'm sure it's still tender and I didn't wash her hair in the bath last night just to make sure we didn't knock it and hurt it again.

So that was our excitement for the week, and I'd rather not have any more like it! This morning I'm meeting my friend Cindy for coffee, and looking forward to the start of a very hot weekend. It's forecast to be 99 degrees!!!